Ten Biggest Lies in History That Befooled Us (With Pictures)

5. Piltdown Man

In 1910, Charles Dawson found the missing link to Darwin’s theory of evolution. It was actually a hoax, one of the biggest lies in history. The discovery was a man in pieces: jaws, molars and skull, and was brought to a prominent paleontologist who declared that it was genuine. It became sensational news until years later when gradually other discoveries were made, and it was discovered that the Piltdown man did not fit in the pattern of evolution. The fossils were only 600 years old.